st peter's n [ = islands of St Pierre and Miquelon]. Cp Dorset County Record Office, 1799 Gundry inventory (D203/A6) Lines ... St Peters.
Comb st peter's gin, ~ rum: liquor procured or smuggled from St Pierre.
1892 Christmas Review 17 To secure the votes of five leading planters, I had to gulp down five glasses of hot St Peter's gin, with loaf sugar, before breakfast. [1900 OLIVER & BURKE] 62 I'll have you unsated and disqualified ... for bribery and corruption, by manes of sellin' yet chape Sin Peter rum.
st peter's line: stout twine or rope used for var fisheries purposes.
T 66/7-64 You'll have the ball [of the caplin-net] strung on a piece o' heavy twine, heavy line, St Peter's line we used to call it, larger than a fishin' line, hard too.
